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Newspaper

Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 12, 1917

Page

7

Sensational Drop in Corn Prices Rocks Chicago Grain Market

Chicago grain markets reel as cash corn prices plunge up to 27 cents per bushel amid distiller demand drop and new food controls. December and May futures slide while wheat falls modestly. provisions rise. Prices vary across Peoria and other centers with signs of a standstill in cash trade and speculation on resale of grain held for neutral countries.

Chicago Stillers Food Control Peoria Coria Seaboard

Local Market Prices for Hay Grain and Milling Goods

Prices for No 2 wheat to be $2.30, corn $2.05, oats $0.71, new oats $0.60, baled hay $20 to $21, alfalfa hay $1.20, millet seed $2.00. Milling products report high patent flour city $13.40, straight patent $13.20, hard wheat flour $14.46, wheat $2.36 per cwt, shipstuff $2.90, corn meal $5.30, shelled corn $2.20, other feeds varied. Hog, hogs and pork prices listed by weight, plus butcher and poultry quotations, hides, tallow, grease by grade, and other animal byproducts from local traders.

Kuellenberg Milling Company H. P Mississippi River Hiss Anck Brothers Davis and Cleaver Hollen & Rogers

Weekly Market Letter from Long Commission Company

Weekly market note discusses cash corn declines driving bearish pressure, forecast cooler start then warm end, suggesting further lower prices if cash corn stays weak. Oats slide with corn and bears pressing. some buying on resting orders. Provisions show pork futures rally with packer buying. advised to buy on weak spots if margins allow.

Ten Farmers Visit Municipal Market Show Strong Returns

Ten farmers sold produce in the city on Saturday. Corn arrived in three loads priced at 1.98 and 2.00 per bushel. Oats straw brought 8.50 per ton. Oats in four loads sold at 0.60 and 0.61 per bushel. Hog prices on the Iseal live stock market rose 15 cents.

Iseal

Hay and grain prices and arrivals report summary

In St Louis on August 12 hay sales show 18.20 to 25 for clover and straw steady. Wheat and oats delivered 1 car each at 8.80 track. Chicago reports 935 tons receipts and 21 tons shipments with hay quality quoted. rye oats and wheat pricing listed with several grade breakdowns. An old bachelor quip about Adam and Eve ends the item.

St. Louis Chicago Icag Ag

Insignificant Exchange Trading Amid Summer Slump on Aug 12

New York stock activity for Saturday was perfunctory with about 160,000 shares. Steel and motors fell sharply, tobacco shares rose and fell, and high priced tobacco issues lagged. Gold exports to Spain totaled 600,000 dollars. Market news noted dull exchange trading, ruble recovery, and a generally flat bank statement. a miscellaneous list of stocks followed with modest moves.

New York Steela and Motors Mercantile Marine Atlantic Gulf and West Indies American International Corporation Unitec Cigar Lorillard Liggett and Myers Spain C. M St. P N. W Erle Lehigh N. S Penn Pac Studebaker BIW Union Pac U. S. Steel U.S. Steel Willys-Over U.S Avcess IBMD

Livestock Market Prices From Four Midwestern Cities

Hogs and cattle receipts and price ranges across St Louis Chicago Kansas City and Omaha on August 12 across the market shows higher hog quotes with light to heavy classes, steady cattle values and lambs in the low to mid teens. Key figures include St Louis hogs 16.65 to 17.18 and cattle 7.50 to 13.50, Chicago hogs up to 17.25 with cattle 7.30 to 14.35, Kansas City hogs 16.90 to 18.20 and cattle 9.25 to 14.25, Omaha hogs 15.90 to 16.40 and cattle 9.15 to 11.15, with calves and lambs across ranges.

St. Louis Chicago Kansan City Kansas City Omaha

Commodity Prices Across Cities Aug 12 Chicago to St Louis

Mabikets Chicago reports butter receipts 9,215 cases unchanged firsts 31 to 32 percent ordinary firsts 27 29 to 44. Potatoes unsettled Virginia barrels $5 5.25 Minnesota early Ohio $? 1.55 1.40 home grown 1.60 1.86. Eggs firm New York receipts 10,255 extras 41 42 firsts 39 40 seconds 7 3a. Live poultry firm chickens 0 fowls 23 24 turkeys 16 dressed prices unchanged. Elgin butter 39% 100 tubs offered no sales. Missouri and Kansas City markets show varied butter and eggs, with other misc prices.

Chicago Virginia Minnesota Springs Kansas City New York Rio T Sentos Elgin St. Louis

Toledo grain prices and notes end with weather joke

Clover seen prime cash quoted for Oct Dec and March futures with Sept Oct prices. Also rye No 2 barley price figures and Timothy prime cash prices. A garbled line ends with a quip about women and children.

Toledo Alsio Timothy

Thursday Dinner Surprise Restores Marriage Balance

Dorry schemes to teach heedless husband Tom a lesson by staging a lavish dinner for four. He discovers the plan billows into a shared, comic reconciliation as they head to the opera with tickets he snagged, realizing her patience and his appreciation.

Dorry Tom Tom Darrell Hampdens Mr. Hampden Janssen

No title supplied

A kneeling figure unties a knot and rises with eyes shining. Tom lunges forward in a fit of ferocity while Dorry smiles in understanding. She vows never to teach him again and he promises to learn together after bad luck.

Tom Dorry Ife

War Gardens Warn About Corn Ear Worm

Keep watch for the corn ear worm a pest attacking ears of corn in some areas. the worm begins on the silk and is easily stopped by dusting the silk with powdered arsenate of lead the recommended method to end the infestation quickly.

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Long Commission Pt. Ck Northwest Lote Minneapolis Duluth Holly Winnipeg Grain Markets North St, Louts New I. Ff Newark East St, Louis Wits Ree Aixo Weekly Market Letter Long Commission Company Adam Eve New York Money Chicago, Greene the Daily Story W. Werner Hampden Providential Gem City Printery S. Fifth St Insal THE Pre Feary Bank Galfety Quincy Railway Company Wolf J. H. Waldron Sid Fleet Wells Building S. W. Con 8Th Maine Streets
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